No GPU = Thermalright HR-02 Macho/HR-22/Corator DS.

Bluetooth doesn't really suits TV, as bluetooth does introduce a minor lag, which is fine for audio only, but useless with video, as you will have audio out of sync with video. Unfortunately, if you want to experience wireless sound, without any lags, you will have to look at digital wireless soluti...

E5 is Socket 2011. E3 is Socket 115x. v1 (usually not marked) are Sandy Bridge. v2 are Ivy bridge. v3 are Haswell.

I have a 460W model powering a 14-drive system with i5-3570K inside Nanoxia Deep Silence 1 case, trust me, it won't produce that much heat - it will produce exactly that 7-10W heat we computed .

150/0.9 = 166.66W (90% efficiency of small PSU) 150/0.85 = 176.47W (85% efficiency of big PSU, -5% worse according to the numbers provided before) 30/0.9 = 33.33W (90% efficiency of small PSU) 30/0.75 = 40W (75% efficiency of big PSU, -15% worse according to the numbers provided before) And well, if...

We talk about sub-10W values.

You will be idling <40W, and top load will be around 150W max. So you will be in 4-15% usage range of your PSU, which means you won't know the efficiency of your PSU, as 80Plus is rated from 20%. It is possible that it could be a lot less efficient than a passive 400W Seasonic X, which is still a ov...

I personally use Fujitsu KB900, but it is not as quiet as i would like to. Same applies for Keysonic KB8021U, which is pretty much PC version of Mac keyboard. Unfortunately Logitech UltraX is not made anymore, so that is out of the question...

If it is a bad news depends on one thing - how low will the price of true OLED displays drop next year. I will not cry after plasma if that means bigger push for OLED to be in acceptable price range (55-60" for <=€1500).

1) Yes, 35W can be cooled passively - on a open case (benchtable, case with top full of holes), or when the heat is moved outside of the case (cases like Streacom). 2) I doubt you will see LGA desktop CPU at anything lower than 35W, they are going to pack more performance in that TDP instead of lowe...

1) "4.5W Haswell" is a bit of a lie. It does 4.5W at lowest clock, that is 800MHz. Nominal TDP for those CPU is 11.5W, at 1.4-1.6Ghz. And you can bet that in case of those passive tablets and ultrabooks will do max few seconds at anything more than 800MHz, becuase thermal throttling will became an i...

Because without a fan the heat will accumulate. Even with top of the case open, the heat rises too slow for any prolonged high load. You can try it yourself - build a system in open, put on it something like HR-02 Macho without a fan, keep the board in vertical position and watch the CPU temperature...

There is no such thing as fanless cooling inside a typical ATX case. The only option for fanless cooling are things like the Streacom cases, which have huge external heatsinks, and even those struggle with 65W TDP and higher.

No RAID, just plain drives connected to the Intel onboard controller. And TLER is actually other way around - a TLER enabled drive (good for RAID) gives up the recovery process in time up to 7 seconds maximum, after that the RAID controller takes over. A normal drive (Green, Blue, Black) with no TL...

No RAID, just plain drives connected to the Intel onboard controller. And TLER is actually other way around - a TLER enabled drive (good for RAID) gives up the recovery process in time up to 7 seconds maximum, after that the RAID controller takes over. A normal drive (Green, Blue, Black) with no TLE...

Somehow i doubt that the 3TB Red has 8s spindown, unless they are not reflected in SMART data. My four WD30EFRX has following SMART data (runtime / power cycle count / power-off retract count / load & unload cycle count: 8 months and 19 days runtime / 127 / 113 / 15 8 months and 22 days / 126 /111 /...

"Interestingly, the WD Green's headparking feature, absent in the 1TB and 3TB Red drives, makes an appearance here, unloading after 7~8 seconds and shaving off 0.8 W." That means it is pretty much unusable for NAS, because it will die in 2-4 years, like most of the Greens. From 6 WD20EARS i had over...

@Abula: 6 hard drives and picoPSU aren't compatible - 6 hard drives would need ~12A @ 12V for spinup, the highest rated picopsu AFAIK gives 10A up to 30 seconds max, and we didn't even took CPU and MB power requirement into account. For 6 hard drives, he should think about a standard PSU.

Aquaero 5 LT is what you are looking for. If you need software temperature sensors, you can use Open Hardware Monitor, otherwise you can use hardware sensors. You can combine multiple sensors into virtual sensors, which do stuff like min/max/average if needed. Then you set up your fan voltages, and ...

About 10-12W are fixed - they are the power consumption of a running hard drive, and because you are using RAID, you can't put them in sleep. That will bring you to the ~35W range, which is acceptable, but not extremly good. Another 6-9W are due inefficiency of the PSU (and i am counting with 80-85%...

I used Enermax Cluster when i had mine, and yes, i tried 3-pin fans too, they work fine, but they need to run above 500RPM.

I'm wondering if a X-400 or a Seasonic P460W will be ok to have the "server" quiet and stable. Yes of course. Even with a Xeon E3-1235 + 12 hard drives + some other minor stuff the max load i was able to pull from that setup was around 200-230W. That is 50% of the maximum load of those passive powe...

It's shown with only a single HDMI port which makes me think this is not that graphically powerful. Even if you could have a powerful graphics chip or 2 and still only offer a single output, it wouldn't make sense to do so. Makes me think that graphically this is not that strong. It got 6 Thunderbo...

NeilBlanchard wrote:I'm hoping the price on the Mac Pro is not astronomical - hopefully since it is compact and uses a fraction (1/8th?) of the materials of the current generation, this will translate to a lower cost, too.

Expect $2500 or more. Of course for a quadcore with single lowend FirePro.

He will use heavy torrent loads, as many as his connection will bear. As soon as leeching/seeding comes into play, low power won't have enough performance, threadtitle is misleading a bit, though. There is really not that much difference between a dual core Ivy Bridge Celeron G1610 and Core i3. If ...

I still don't understand why do you keep requesting i3... Get a Celeron 1610 (35-40 euros) + B75/H77 Socket 1155 board (50-100 euros) according to your requirements, and call it a day. Performance is more than enough for those tasks you mentoined. 20-25W idle power.

I think the primary issue with the first picture would be finding a SLI bridge that long. And unless we talk about very expensive Z87 boards with a PCIe multiplier chip (PLX), none of them will have x16 SLI, simply because the CPU has only 16 PCIe lanes - so the best you can get is x8 + x8. Sure, yo...

Eh ? NH-U12P SE2 uses SecuFirm2 too.

Yes, pico PSU is again only a DC/DC system - you got an adapter which converts 110/230V to 12V and then the small PCB inside the computer only passes through 12V and converts part of it to 3.3V and 5V. 3.3V is mostly used by various motherboard components if needed, 5V mostly for hard drives. But th...

P = Platinum
X = Gold (X560-X860)
FL = Fanless (X400, X460)
G = G series (G360, G550 etc)
M12II-650, 750, 850 - no need to explain